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📚 Publisher @slugmag
🎨 Director @craftlakecity Empowering underground creatives & entrepreneurs through storytelling & partnership.

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We are so excited to introduce our closing keynote @therealangela 🎉🤘🏻✨

Angela H. Brown is the Publisher of SLUG Magazine, Salt Lake’s longest-running independent publication, and the Founder and Executive Director of Craft Lake City, Utah’s leading nonprofit celebrating local makers and creative culture. Over 35 years, she has built platforms for thousands of artists, makers and independent voices across Utah, with a particular commitment to elevating women and underrepresented creatives who deserve a seat at the table. Angela is a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses graduate, recipient of the Josephine Zimmerman Pioneer in Journalism Award, the 2024 Mayor’s Artist Award and the 2026 Downtown Alliance Creator Cultural Icon Award.

She is an icon in Salt Lake City’s art scene and we cannot wait to hear from her to close out the week!

Her presentation will be right after our Designing The New World panel in the same venue on October 9th so make sure you’re ON TIME!!

We will start right at 7:30 🔥

Thank you to @teamthirteen for hosting!! by @therealangela

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Today the Downtown Alliance named me a Cultural Icon of Salt Lake City. This city has been my greatest collaborator, my biggest inspiration and the community I have chosen every single day since I was 25 years old.

I almost left. San Francisco was calling. A bigger city, a bigger title, a bigger life. Or so I thought.

To every artist, every maker, every creative who ever trusted SLUG Magazine with their story, who set up a booth at Craft Lake City and called themselves a creator for the first time, who stayed when it would have been easier to leave. This one is for you.

To my husband Fletcher, and to every paid and volunteer team member at SLUG Mag and Craft Lake City who showed up through every hard season. None of this exists without you.

Salt Lake City, twenty-five years later, I would make the same choice every single time. by @therealangela

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Angela H. Brown started Craft Lake City in 2009 as a one-off event for only 2,000 people, and has now grown to reach 800,000 people annually, across 100+ annual events! 💥

Want to get involved?

Craft Lake City is constantly growing! Whether you’re interested in:
🎪The DIY Fest
✍️LetterWest
🎄Holiday Market
🎓The Youth Entrepreneur Program

We are always looking to involve more partners to benefit the most community members possible!

If you’re interested in supporting the creative community, DM us or email artisancoordinator@craftlakecity.com

Shirt by CLC Artisan @izabella.rain.art 💛

Video by @zayacreativez 🎥 taken in Salt Lake City, Utah by @therealangela

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Motor City X SLC, day two.

Breakfast in a conservatory on the 13th floor Booktower. Murals the size of buildings. Third Man Records. A night market. Karaoke until late and a walk to the riverfront.

Detroit makes you rethink what’s possible when people decide to stop waiting and just build with what they have.

Detroit vs. Everybody is not just a slogan. This city earned that phrase and you feel it in every abandoned building and block that got torn down and rebuilt by people who refused to leave.

Salt Lake City has that same energy. We just haven’t named it loud enough yet.

I’m thinking about that. by @therealangela

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Eleven years married. Twenty-something years together. Five years as parents.

I snuck away from a trip to Detroit with city leaders to record a love letter for my husband at Third Man Records. A 45. My voice, my words, pressed into vinyl so it outlasts any text message or saved voicemail. So Esmé will always have it too.

We are living in an era where people are walking away from long relationships. I get it. Long love is hard. It asks you to keep choosing the same person through versions of yourself neither of you expected.

Eleven years later, I still choose Fletcher. More intentionally now than ever.

I am not coasting. I am doubling down. Asking myself how I can be a better partner, a more present wife, a more generous person to the one who has been in my corner through every season: losing my parents, growing the magazine, starting the nonprofit, the late nights and the early mornings.

Commitment is the most important thing I am building.

Happy 11th anniversary, Fletcher Booth. I love you on wax and in real life. taken in Third Man Pressing by @therealangela

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Last night I had the privilege of attending the Equality Utah Gala alongside leadership from @spy_hop @artaccessutah @slugmag and @craftlakecity.

@equalityutah does the hard, necessary work of advancing the rights of LGBTQ+ Utahns. Showing up for organizations like this is part of what it means to be values-driven.

We welcomed their new executive director, Essie Gonzsen and her vision for the road ahead is energizing.

Thank you Patty and John Haslett for sponsoring our tables. They give quietly and consistently and this community feels it.

Collaboration and solidarity across organizations is how change actually compounds. Proud to “take flight” alongside good people doing good work. taken in Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City by @therealangela

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Before I was a magazine publisher. Before I was an executive director. I was a girl with a camera in the crowd.

I got my start photographing bands in Salt Lake City’s underground scene in the 1990s. Local stages, house shows, dingy practice spaces. For me it was never about being seen, it was about capturing the people who deserved to be.

Earlier this year I had the privilege of photographing Rebecca K. Vernon for her solo project, The Keening. Rebecca is a force. Known worldwide in the doom metal community for her work with Subrosa, her second solo album will be released to the world October 16 on Relapse Records.

One of those images just ran full page in Decibel Magazine.

I still identify as a photographer. I always will. Thank you for trusting me to visually capture your true self. It’s my favorite thing to do.

The Keening. Relapse Records. Decibel Magazine. Salt Lake City proud. taken in SLUG Mag by @therealangela

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Motor City x SLC, Day One

Surprise plane seat next to fellow Westsider and District one Council Member Victoria Petro. Check-in at the historic Siren Hotel.
 Welcome dinner at Union Assembly. Cocktails with SLC’s nonprofit art leaders at Cliff Bell’s jazz club. Casino pop in. Late night city street discovery with Bad Brad Wheeler. Detroit has a way of pulling you in from the first hour.

I was there with the Downtown Alliance and some of Salt Lake City’s most committed leaders, exploring one of the most remarkable urban revivals in the country. The ideas we brought home go straight into the work we’re building at SLUG Mag and Craft Lake City.   Grateful to be invited on this trip, to be in bigger rooms in bigger cities.

Did you know the MC5 is from Detroit?

Edited by @carolina.austinn taken in Detroit, Michigan by @therealangela

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Details for the closing party ✨

Link to RSVP to the two parts in our stories!
We will also have drinks and charcuterie 🤘🏻

Thank you @jaden.wolfe for help with these graphics!! by @therealangela

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Women who own small businesses support one another in so many ways- even working out together! We hosted a few amazing women doing incredible things across Salt Lake City this morning in a Bar Pilates class! Come try a class at The Bar Method Avenues and feel empowered as you workout with others in our community. #barmethod

#utahwomeninbusiness #slc #utahwomen #utahfitness taken in Salt Lake City, Utah by @therealangela

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